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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Spicy Cranberry Glazed Chicken for Crazy Ingredient Challenge

This month our Crazy Ingredient Challenge host, Dawn, chose
cranberries and shallots. Well, we actually voted on a set of ingredients provided by Dawn. Cranberries and shallots won. I had never worked with cranberries or
shallots before and I kinda stared at the ingredients on the page for a long while. Certainly, I could not make dessert. Or could I? A quick bread? A galette? A galette would be amazing. I had never made one before. How close in flavour to onions were shallots? Were they sweet? Sharper bite? What to expect? It's a little harder to plan a dish when you have no idea what the flavours are like. Eventually, I decided to just keep it simple and make something that I would want to eat for dinner. I really loved this and I hope that if you try it, you will too.

Season the generously chicken with seasoned salt and pepper. Allow to sit for at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 400 F.
In a small saucepan combine all the remaining ingredients over medium heat. Stir from time to time as the jellied cranberry sauce melts.

Put the chicken pieces in a foil lined baking pan and place in the oven. After 10 minutes reduce the oven temperature to 350 F and brush the chicken pieces with the spicy cranberry sauce. Keep basting and turning the chicken pieces every 10 minutes until the chicken is completely cooked - ~ 40 minutes.